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Veteran community organizer Marie Nahikian hosts The Usable Past, where activists share their stories of past and present organizing for better housing, food, banks, jobs, environmental and social justice. A Brooklyn resident, Marie most recently worked with U.S. Housing & Urban Development under President Obama and has participated in building 5,000 affordable homes in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Marie has been a neighborhood, civil rights, housing and labor organizer, a com ...
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Philadelphia's Garden Path AdVENTURES 2022
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In this episode, The Usable Past with Marie Nahikian connects the 2022 explosion of young bipoc, lgbt, Black and Latino women who are gardeners, food producers, investors & entrepreneurs to the rich history of Philadelphia, “America’s Garden Capital.” Hear a conversation with Blaine Bonham who created Philadelphia Green with the Philadelphia Hortic…
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The Venture Café conversation, EARTH DAY 2021-Where Are We Now is focused on how the growing levels of bad air, water, fracking and fossil fuel impacts the lives of people who live in Philadelphia & Pennsylvania. This edition is also available on YouTube, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-VNefFO60A. This session builds on a 2020 Usable Past po…
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Episode 12: Brooklyn Underhill Stories: All Global Soul
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Our windows framed Underhill Avenue. We saw everything. Cars lost tires & hubcaps, shots fired, Labor Day eating roti, goat & jerk, Primrose's rum punch, our son dancing in W. Indian Children's parade. Daily commerce centered on a bodega, opened by Mohammed, an immigrant from Yemen; we fondly named it “The Yuck Store.” The other main traders moved …
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Episode 11: Daughter of Brooklyn Finds the Circus
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Susan is an aerial artist, dancer and choreographer, an international circus star, a black woman who went to Brooklyn public schools, graduated from Stanford University and worked on the human genome project. Then she went to Paris.By Marie Nahikian
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Episode 10: Special Edition-MY U.S. Capitol 1-06-2021
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Over 20 years, Marie Nahikian had distinct and personal experiences within the U.S. Capitol building. This special edition describes how the U.S. Capitol Police were always in control and that it is inconceivable that terrorists were able to breach the building. This edition documents visits for haircuts, gift shop sales and escorting John & Yoko L…
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This is an only in Brooklyn story about building community in the most unexpected places. Ellen Dede, the organizer, has followed Torello Cabrol's water aerobics class for over 20 years; she is joined on the podcast by Bill Kahn, a newcomer and Marie Nahikian, The Usable Past host who joined the class only 3 years ago. Torello Cabrol talks abut the…
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Episode 8: The Usable Past: Shirley Chisholm: Founding Mother of Contemporary Black Politics
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Shirley Chisholm, Brooklyn's own, the first African American woman elected to Congress & in 1972, she was the first woman nominated to be President. Conversation with Barbara Bullard, a Brooklyn Bed-Sty resident at the forefront of working to protect Chisholm's legacy and a producer of a planned feature film starring Anika Noni Rose. Joined by cult…
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Episode 7: Feet to the Fire-Yale Union Organizers Know How
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At Yale University, clerical & technical workers organized Local 34 with help from the blue-collar workers in UNITE-Local 35. With strikes in 1984 and 2003, the Yale "non-academic" work force in 2020 is guaranteed working wages, health care and strong retirement benefits. While labor movement lost strength all over the U.S. since the 1980's, after …
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The 1970 event is viewed as a Prelude to Earth Day, one of the very earliest national environmental protests in February 1970 before Earth Day in April. Marie Nahikian hosts this podcast and was the organizer/conference coordinator. The conference participants were college newspaper editors and was, it turns out a significant organizing strategy as…
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This episode begins with 1970 national conference/protest about looming environmental crisis, a prelude to the first Earth Day and is contrasted with 50 years later witnessing the October 2019 Climate Strike. Includes incidents with Robert O. Anderson, CEO of Atlantic Richfield Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel, NY Time…
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“With all deliberate speed” 3 Southern white sisters experience 1960 Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, 1967 Kathleen Cleaver encounter & Coretta Scott King interview, high school desegregation violence, Asheville, NC 1972. Music from Sweet Honey & the RockBy Marie Nahikian
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An invitation and plane ticket to the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro to attend a "higher education" conference that was actually a SNCC organizing conference in 1967 produced was accepted by the author and resulted an one of the few interviews ever done with Coretta Scott King and meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. …
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Community Organizers: 1968-2018 Crossovers
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How community organizers make life commitments to social change and benefit from inter-generational leadership. Strong people do not need strong leaders, but change needs strong community organizers.By Marie Nahikian
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Community Organizing 101: How Not to Organize a Community Garden
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Marie Nahikian, long time community organizer, tells story of one of her earliest organizing strategies that did not work and the lesson she learned from community residents.By Marie Nahikian
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Invitation to listen and to know how you are listening.By Marie Nahikian
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